Directions: In the following question, an argument is followed by two assumptions. Which of the assumptions is/are implicit in the argument?

Argument: Puritanism, with its emphasis on abstinence, cannot pass from one generation to another without losing much of what grace it has, and acquiring most odious and mischievous elements. Entailed puritanism, being an actual impossibility, all attempts to realise it have the worst features of sham and hypocrisy. Assumptions: (A) Puritanism and procreation are antithetical by nature. (B) Procreation means surrender of abstinence.